Setting Out Of Office Assistant

[Graham]

I have been asked to write a small application (possibly
web based) to be used by our helpdesk so that they can
enable/diable the out of office assistant for any user.

It appears that you can do this in CDO for a logged on
session, however, this is just for a known mailbox/profile.

I envisage that the solution will require the mailbox (GAL
entry) to be selected and then the Out of Office flag to
be switched on/off.

What is the best way to do this as a generic solution and
will I need to set up a "superuser" account for the
application to run?

Many thanks in advance.
Graham

 

[Guest]

Should have added:

Outlook 2000
Exchange 2000
Windows 2000

G.

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

You could login to all the mailboxes in the GAL in turn, see
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=203019 for sample code to do that. The
code uses CDO 1.21, an optional installation for Outlook 2000 and later.
Once you are logged in to each mailbox you can turn on or off the assistant
using CDO code.

The code sample at http://www.cdolive.com/outofofficecalendar.htm shows how
to manipulate the assistant, you might want to look that over.

 

[Graham]

Cheers Ken,

Some good pointers for me here.

Regards
Graham